Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's May 5th, 2026, and I'm in Mainz, Germany, for the legendary JAX conference! It's been infinitely far too long since I've been at this amazing show, and I'm oh-so happy to be back here! Tonight, after my two talks here, I'm off to London, UK, for the equally amazing Devoxx UK show! It's bound to be a ton of fun! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Ronald Dehuysser about his group's new JobRunr-powered OpenClaw-like thing. Have you seen that we have a handy new Releases section on the blog…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to my friend and JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser about the latest and greatest, and their new "JavaClaw" project!

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I'm on PTO in beautiful Santorini, Greece, catching up on some news and about to cruise the islands for some sightseeing. There's nothing quite like springtime in the Mediterranean! I couldn't dream of enjoying the weather during the spring season until I checked in on which way the wind was blowing in the Spring community, and so here we are! Let's dive right into it! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to both Dr. Venkat Subramaniam and James Ward, ahead of a talk that the three of…

I am beyond thrilled that I got to co-present with two legends, Dr. Venkat Subramaniam and James Ward, at Voxxed Days Amsterdam, and even more so that they both sat down for a quick discussion with me right before that presentation. Enjoy!

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a week it's been since we last talked. I was in Barcelona, Spain, for the amazing Spring I/O event there. It has become my favorite show, full stop. Just such an amazing experience. So many wonderful things going on there. So many amazing community members. So much joy. And a little sangria, being 100% honest. Then, after that, I went and spent a little time in a beautiful village south of Barcelona, then I went to the south of France for a little fun in the sun. Then I went to two cities in lovely Poland, where I was…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary Craig Walls, author of Spring In Action, Spring AI in Action, and more!

Hi, Spring fans! ¡Hola from Barcelona, Spain! I'm at the amazing Spring I/O event, hanging out with some of the amazing Spring ecosystem developers! Life is amazing here in the warm sun of springtime. There's a lot to look at this week, so let's dive right into it! Another nice tutorial on how to build microservices with Spring Boot I loved this new post looking at Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 over on InfoQ Interesting! A guide to internationalization in Spring Boot, by our friends at Baeldung. I really liked this post looking at how the enormous Aperro CAS system manages configuration…

Hi Spring fans! I was delighted to get a chance to sit and talk to my pal and Pivotal alum Mark Kropf about his efforts around orchestrating AI. This doesn’t have to do with the JVM or Spring, per se, but it’s an interesting discussion nonetheless.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's April 7th, 2026, and I'm on the road! I started the journey for the amazing Voxxed Days Amsterdam show and am now winding my way through France. I visited Colmar, a beautiful city from which the animators on Disney's Beauty and the Beast drew some inspiration. Now I'm off to Lyon, to see some of my French colleagues and explore one of the centers of gastronomy in the world. Then, it's off to Paris, where I'll be speaking at the Java User Group this Thursday! If you're local, don't miss it (ne le ratez pas!) In the…

I had a wonderful chat with Java Developer Advocate Ana-Maria Mihalceanu about Java Flight Recorder, Project Babylon, Project Panama, and so many other exciting things in the Java ecosystem.